In the wake of the Arab uprisings, al-Nahda voted to transform itself into a political party that
would for the first time withdraw from a preaching project built around religious, social, and …

We present a theory for how variation in autocratic civil-military relations affects the type of
coups to which autocratic leaders are vulnerable. Dictators rely on alternative strategies of …

The demographically modest, but strategically significant, country of Tunisia has
experienced profound and revolutionary change in the almost two decades since the …

This article challenges conventional accounts of the Tunisian and Egyptian militaries' role in
the Arab Spring, emphasizing the very different bargaining versus containing logic through …

" This book is about what lawyers do in challenging contexts of conflict, authoritarianism, and
the transition from violence. It is also, inevitably, about law, politics, and the ways in which …

In recent years, concern about the rise of a global tide of authoritarianism has increased
(Glasius 2018; Moghaddam 2019; Diamond 2020). On the one hand, several democracies …

Mainstream analyses of Tunisia's post-2011 democratic transition have been largely divided
along two mutually exclusive narratives. There are those hailing the country as 'the Arab …

In 1987 Tunisian prime minister Zine al-'Abidine Ben'Ali seized power from the ailing
president, Habib Bourguiba. Less well-known is that Ben'Ali's coup had preempted another …

How and where did mass mobilization for radical demands emerge in the process of the
2010/11 Tunisian revolution? And how can this inform theories of revolution, especially …

This article focuses on the portrayal of democratic backsliding in Tunisia through the lens of
political cartoons, focusing on the work of the cartoonist Z. Z's cartoons, particularly those …